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The Dollar Vigilante Kidnapped and Handcuffed in Palm Springs

I swear, I do not try to attract the police but in the US it is nearly impossible to avoid... and if you don't smile and bow down they'll be on top of you in an instant. I and a TDV subscriber, decided to leave a bar, and were walking a few blocks to another place when a squad car pulled up and started shining its big, bright light at me. He immediately put me in handcuffs and the next thing I knew I was in the back of the squad car. I asked him what we had done and he told us that he kidnapped us because we had been drinking and were walking down the street.

Russian scientists are falling victim to their own antiquated notions of socialized, government-run science as Moscow demands that all its science arms be further unified under new rules and authority. It's amazing to see the double-think from the scientists as they try to explain government sponsorship of science as a good thing, but in the same breath explain away further centralization and new government mandates as a bad thing. From a libertarian perspective, this reads almost like an article from The Onion.

I Can't Believe There's No Butter.

You'd think the world's self-proclaimed richest country, with an agricultural sector heavily regulated to secure Norwegian self-sufficiency of food, would never experience shortages. Wrong. Right now, we are experiencing a butter shortage in Norway. Dwindling milk production due to over-regulated farmers throwing in the towel and increased demand of fatty foods due to the low-carb dieting fad has lead to a butter shortage. The farmers, whose income consists of 70% subsidies from the government, and whose production is regulated by quotas, cannot produce enough milk to satisfy demands.

Republican Threatens Legal Action Against DHS Over

A top House Republican is threatening to enforce a subpoena for criminal immigrant information "to the fullest extent" of the law, after claiming the Obama administration "stonewalled" his request.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith for months has been seeking a comprehensive list of names and other information for the thousands of immigrants who are flagged, but not taken into custody or deported through a program known as Secure Communities.

10 million could pay more Social Security tax

While current social security recipients get the good news of a 3.6% payout increase, some "high earning" tax payers will have to foot the bill for the increase since the government cannot spend money properly.